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Title: Unbeatable blaze, firemen give up
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A towering column of heavy black smoke rises high into the sky as Hancock Oil Refinery continues to burn, 16 hours after the fire had started. Black smoke was so heavy that firemen gave up and decided to 'let it burn itself out.' Photo dated: May 23, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037080
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040084
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12062
Subject: Hancock Oil Refinery
Oil fields--California
Fires--California
Oil well drilling rigs--California
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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